A judge has ordered the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner to seal all records in the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, blocking the release of any information about how or when she died.

A powerful atmospheric river had mostly moved through California after causing at least six deaths and dousing much of the state, but lingering thunderstorms brought the risk of mudslides in areas of Los Angeles County that were recently ravaged by wildfire.

An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river was dousing Southern California on Saturday, prompting flood warnings in areas of coastal Los Angeles County that recently were ravaged by wildfires.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office says a grand jury indictment was unsealed charging a former Los Angeles police officer in the 2015 shooting death of an unarmed homeless man.

Los Angeles County has reached a tentative $828 million agreement to settle more than 400 additional sexual abuse claims against county employees that were not included in an earlier settlement that was the largest sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history.

Los Angeles County officials have declared a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.

Residents in the Western U.S. are enduring a heat wave with temperatures reaching dangerous levels across Washington, Oregon, Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona.

Firefighters with air support are scrambling to control a fast-moving wildfire that erupted in hills along Interstate 5 in northwestern Los Angeles County.

Authorities are looking into whether grenades recovered from a Santa Monica apartment complex caused an explosion last week at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility that killed three members of its arson and explosives unit.

A police officer was killed and another was injured in a shooting in a city east of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County officials have approved a $4 billion payout to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.

More than 50,000 Los Angeles County workers are walking picket lines to demand higher pay.

Tens of thousands of Los Angeles county workers are going on strike, closing libraries and disrupting administrative operations across the region.

A jury on has found rapper Soulja Boy liable for sexually assaulting and physically and emotionally abusing a former assistant.

Prosecutors say a Southern California youth soccer coach charged with killing a 13-year-old boy last month is being investigated in connection with alleged sexual assaults on at least two other teens in recent years.

A youth soccer coach has been charged in the death of a 13-year-old whose body was found on the side of a Southern California road.

Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.

Officials say Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.

A German shepherd-husky dog has evaded capture for nearly two months after being rescued from a California shelter and running away from her adoptive home in Alaska.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says it will retest 4,000 DNA samples and open an internal investigation after learning that it used potentially flawed test kits for eight months.

The district attorney of Los Angeles says he does not support the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez.

Los Angeles County says it is suing Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked January’s Eaton Fire, which destroyed more than 9,400 structures and killed 17 people in the Altadena area.

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Rain that began falling in parched Southern California will aid firefighters mopping up multiple wildfires.

A new sentencing hearing for brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez in the killing of their parents has been delayed for nearly two months because of Southern California’s wildfires.

Firefighters scrambled to make further progress against wildfires that have killed at least 24 people in the Los Angeles area as forecasters again warned of dangerous weather with the return of strong winds this week.

The wildfires tearing through Los Angeles have taken lives and thousands of homes.

The new Los Angeles County district attorney has met with the Menendez brothers’ family as he continues to review the brothers' bid for freedom 35 years after they were convicted of killing their parents.

The aging computer dispatch system for the nation's largest sheriff's department remains out of commission.

Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution.

It’s always hot this time of year in central Arizona, but 2024's endless summer has been especially hot in Phoenix.

Can tech help solve Southern California's homeless crisis.

Big new wildfires are challenging California firefighters even as they increase containment of earlier blazes that erupted as dry winds arrived last weekend.

Up to one-third of the 12,000 inmates in Los Angeles County jails can’t get to their court appearances because of a shortage of functioning buses.

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has advanced to a runoff in his reelection bid.

California's Legislative Black Caucus is pushing for lawmakers to pass a package of more than a dozen reparations proposals.

Los Angeles County’s annual count of homeless residents is under way.

Two veteran Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were seriously hurt when a fire broke out inside a trailer serving as a mobile shooting range north of Los Angeles.

The man charged with murder in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.

A man has been arrested in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was shot as he sat in a patrol car.

A landslide that has destroyed homes in a Southern California community appears to have slowed but more homes have been evacuated.

Leaders of a Southern California city hit by a destructive landslide are planning to vote on a resolution to declare a local emergency.

A landslide is tearing apart luxury homes on Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked again, increasing by 9% since last year.

Animal shelters throughout the country are overpopulated. Many have closed or modified intake. Houston is not immune.

A California man who spent 33 years in prison for attempted murder has been declared innocent.

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. rose slightly in 2022.

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office says “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper Coolio suffered an accidental death from the effects of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine last year.

California's coronavirus emergency declaration has ended.

Authorities in Los Angeles County say a gunman accused of killing 10 people and wounding 10 others at a Lunar New Years celebration inside a dance studio in Monterey Park was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Saturday.

Los Angeles authorities have given a little girl a license to own a unicorn — if she can find one.

Authorities have released from custody a young man who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of a peace officer after the SUV he was driving veered into the wrong lane and crashed into Los Angeles County law enforcement recruits on a training run, injuring 25.

Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old driver on suspicion of attempted murder after he veered into the wrong lane and struck Los Angeles County sheriff’s academy recruits on a training run.

A car struck 22 Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits on a training run around dawn Wednesday and five were critically injured, authorities said.

Authorities say 25 Los Angeles County sheriff’s academy recruits on a training run were hit by a vehicle that veered onto the wrong side of the road Wednesday morning, and five were critically injured.

Prosecutors say two Los Angeles County deputies won’t face criminal charges for fatally shooting a Black man they tried to stop for riding a bicycle the wrong direction.

A Los Angeles judge has declared a mistrial and dismissed grand theft charges against a former business manager of Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee.

The founder and CEO of a software company targeted by election deniers has been arrested on suspicion of stealing personal identifying information on hundreds of Los Angeles County poll workers.

A hospitalized Los Angeles County resident with a compromised immune system has died from monkeypox.

Some firefighters battling a Southern California blaze are being pulled back to rest after seven were sent to the hospital in the midst of a grueling heat wave.

A federal jury has found that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million for emotional distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies of the NBA star and his daughter taken at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed them.

Los Angeles County has dropped a plan to impose a universal indoor mask mandate this week as COVID-19 infections and rates of hospitalizations have stabilized.

Los Angeles County officials on Wednesday presented the deed to prime California oceanfront property to the heirs of a Black couple who built a beach resort for African Americans but were harassed and finally stripped of the land nearly a century ago.

Metro Phoenix’s Maricopa County had among the biggest growth in white, Black and Hispanic residents last year, as well as the biggest increase overall of any U.S. county.

The Los Angeles County sheriff disputed allegations he orchestrated the cover-up of an incident where a deputy knelt on a handcuffed inmate’s head for more than three minutes.

A new report shows that nearly 2,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles County during the first year of the pandemic, an increase of 56% from the previous year, driven mainly by drug overdoses.

California workplace regulators have extended mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022.

California's unemployment rate has fallen to 5.4% after employers added a surprising 138,100 jobs in February.

A Los Angeles audit finds that a $1.2 billion program intended to quickly build housing for the city's homeless residents is moving too slowly, and costs are climbing.

The body of an actor who had been missing for several days was found Friday morning near an entrance to hiking trails in Hollywood, authorities said.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti thought it was nuts to host a NASCAR race inside the Coliseum the first time he heard the idea.

Lawyers for Los Angeles County failed in their bid to persuade a federal judge to end Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit over gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna and seven others.

A year after New Year’s Day passed without a Rose Parade due to the coronavirus pandemic, the floral spectacle celebrating the arrival of 2022 marched on despite a new surge of infections.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he won’t comply with a mandate requiring deputies be vaccinated against the coronavirus or face termination.

The proportion of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations among vaccinated Pennsylvania residents has risen sharply in the past month, although the shots remain broadly protective.

The California recall election was a blowout win for Gov. Gavin Newsom that reinforced the state’s political divisions.

Los Angeles County’s board of supervisors voted unanimously on Wednesday to phase out oil and gas drilling and ban new drill sites in the unincorporated areas of the county.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer will miss the rest of the season.

Police have presented to prosecutors their investigation of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer.

Federal health regulators have again extended the expiration dates on Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine by another six weeks.

South Korea’s prime minister has offered a public apology over a large-scale coronavirus outbreak on a destroyer on an anti-piracy mission off East Africa.

Los Angeles County will again require masks indoors even when people are vaccinated.

Los Angeles County is reporting the fifth straight day of more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases.

A Los Angeles County firefighter appeared to have a longstanding job-related dispute with the co-worker he shot and killed at their small fire station this week.

Authorities say an off-duty Los Angeles County firefighter fatally shot a fellow firefighter and wounded another at their fire station before going to his nearby home, setting it on fire and apparently killing himself.

Court documents say two Los Angeles County firefighters could be fired and a third suspended after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his teenage daughter and seven others.

Los Angeles and San Francisco have met state guidelines to move into the least-restrictive tier for businesses to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sports, theater and music fans will be able to take their seats again in California as the state’s coronavirus cases plunge and vaccinations jump.

Police march toward demonstrators in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles Thursday, March 25, 2021. Demonstrators gathered Wednesday night to protest the planned temporary closure of a Los Angeles park that would displace a large homeless encampment, which has grown throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Ramirez, who said she has lived at parks in Los Angeles and in neighboring Orange County, said she moved in days earlier. A January 2020 count by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported that there were more than 66,400 homeless people living in Los Angeles County — by far the largest single concentration in the state. AdThat included more than 41,000 people within Los Angeles city limits.

WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials are warning health professionals about the risk of false positive results with a widely used laboratory test for COVID-19 and flu. The Iowa Department of Public Health said Friday that Iowa has administered 1.03 million doses. The state health department sent a notice Thursday to the hospitals, pharmacies, clinics and other community providers of the coronavirus vaccine detailing the state’s expectations. AdBrazil has already secured contracts for 200 million vaccine doses, half made by AstraZeneca and half by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. It could use those mechanisms as well to expand eligibility___PRAGUE — The health authorities in the Czech Republic have administered over 1 million coronavirus vaccine shots.

Chandler Street village was developed and funded by Los Angeles as part of an emergency response to the worsening homelessness crisis. A 2020 tally found there were 66,400 homeless people in Los Angeles County — up more than 12% from the previous year. The tiny home village had to overcome some “not-in-my-backyard” reactions from nearby residents who needed to be convinced it's a safe, clean opportunity for shelter, Kerkorian said. AdAdvocates for the homeless applaud the effort, saying every bit of shelter helps amid the deepening crisis. The goal for Chandler Street residents is to stay a few months and then transition to more permanent housing.

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California will begin sending 40% of all vaccine doses to the most vulnerable neighborhoods in the state to try to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus and get the state’s economy open more quickly, Gov. The areas are considered most vulnerable based on metrics such as household income, education level and access to health care. Setting aside 40% of vaccine supply essentially means that hard-hit ZIP codes will be administering double what they are currently, Ghaly said. Data show that of shots given, only about 17% were administered in vulnerable communities that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. He said he expects all communities to receive at least as many doses of vaccine as they are receiving now.

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for the state’s most vulnerable neighborhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus and get the state’s economy open more quickly. The doses will be spread out among 400 ZIP codes with about 8 million people eligible for shots. The areas are considered most vulnerable based on metrics such as household income, education level, housing status and access to transportation. Once the state gives out 4 million doses in those neighborhoods, it will revise the metrics for getting into the even less restrictive orange and yellow tiers. Yet community health clinics focused on serving low-income and vulnerable Californians say they haven't been getting enough doses.

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)LOS ANGELES – Detectives are looking at data from the “black box” of Tiger Woods' SUV to get a clearer picture of what occurred during the Southern California rollover crash that seriously injured the golf star, authorities said Wednesday. There was no immediate information regarding what was found in the black box, Deputy Trina Schrader said in a statement. The 2021 GV80, made by the Hyundai luxury brand, is likely to have a newer version of event data recorders nicknamed “black boxes” after more sophisticated recorders in airplanes. AdUSA Today first reported the search warrant, noting that deputies did not seek one for samples of Woods' blood. Villanueva did not specifically say Wednesday that investigators had not sought a search warrant for blood samples.

After a year of struggling to boost testing, communities across the country are seeing plummeting demand, shuttering testing sites or even trying to return supplies. “We just don’t have enough people who are immune to rule out another surge.”U.S. testing hit a peak on Jan. 15, when the country was averaging more than 2 million tests per day. “People just aren’t going to go out to testing sites.”AdBut testing remains important for tracking and containing the outbreak. That’s more than 25 times the country’s current rate of about 40 million tests reported per month. From a public health viewpoint, testing is effective if it helps to quickly find the infected, trace their contacts and isolate them to stop the spread.

The Los Angeles man adopted her as a 2-month-old kitten in 2005. (Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control via AP)LOS ANGELES – A cat that went astray about 15 years ago has been reunited, older and maybe wiser, with its owner. Brandy, a brown tabby, was reunited Monday afternoon with Charles, who adopted her as a 2-month-old kitten in 2005. Charles went on with his life. “She basically weighed as much as when she was a kitten," Charles said.

Los Angeles County emergency medical technicians deliver patients for admission at the Ambulatory Care Center station at the MLK Community Medical Group hospital in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Johns Hopkins University put California’s overall COVID-19 death toll at 50,890. The death toll climbed precipitously amid a fall and winter surge that has begun to taper off as cases and hospitalizations drop. Los Angeles County on Wednesday reported an additional 136 deaths, accounting for nearly half of the state’s 314 additional deaths. Black people make up 6% of the state’s population and account for 4% of cases and 6% of deaths.

The coronavirus death toll in California surpassed 50,000 on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, marking about one-tenth of the U.S. total from the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County on Wednesday reported another 806 deaths from coronavirus during the winter surge, pushing California’s toll above 50,000, or about one-tenth of the U.S. total from the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University put California’s overall COVID-19 death toll at 50,890. The death toll climbed precipitously amid a fall and winter surge that has begun to taper off as cases and hospitalizations drop. Los Angeles County on Wednesday reported an additional 136 new deaths, accounting for nearly half of the state's 314 additional deaths.

Woods suffered leg injuries in the one-car accident and was undergoing surgery, authorities and his manager said. Briefly Tuesday, the world paused and worried that Woods might be critically injured or worse. It was the 10th surgery for Woods, who has suffered knee, back and neck problems for more than a decade. The news put a damper on the World Golf Championship in Florida, where Woods was eligible to play. Man, I just hope he’s all right.”This is the third time Woods has been involved in a car investigation.

In barely a year since the virus was first detected in the state, 1 in 1,000 Californians have died from it. Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous with a quarter of the state’s nearly 40 million residents, has more than 40% of California’s virus deaths. Rios Luna, 22, said she was especially cautious with her mother since the pandemic began. “Once I saw her in the bed, it honestly, it broke my heart,” Rios Luna said. “We feel like she waited for us to go see her,” Rios Luna said.